Assignment news: Chris Tilton (Mercenaries, Black) has signed to score Mercenaries II for Pandemic Studios. He previously collaborated with Michael Giacchino on the original Mercenaries game, but will score the follow-up himself.

Composer Elia Cmiral scores ‘Pulse’Composer Elia Cmiral scores Pulse for director Jim Sonzero and The Weinstein Company/Dimension Films. Inspired by a popular Japanese film, the Wes Craven-penned thriller tells the story of young computer hackers who channel a mysterious signal that opens a doorway to another world, full of forces looking for a portal [...]

Danny Elfman’s first concert work “Serenada Schizophrana” in stores October 3rd on Sony
Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated composer of music for over 100 films and tv series – Batman, Spiderman, Beetle Juice, “The Simpsons”
Work premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2005, with American Composers Orchestra conducted by Steven Sloane – music later featured in IMAX’s Deep Sea 3D
Adding another [...]

Check out photos from the Ubeda Film Music Festival (via Film Score Monthly message board).
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MovieScore Media presents
The RoostOriginal Motion Picture ScoreAlso featuring music from Joshua
Music composed by Jeff Grace
Exploring even darker territories, composer Jeff Grace moves from Middle-Earth and Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy to the world of zombies and vampires in the acclaimed cult horror film The Roost, directed by Ti West. Grace, who worked as [...]

The Composer ExpoFriday, August 4, 2006The Academy Ballroom / The Hollywood Roosevelt HotelRegister today at: http://www.tcmcomposerexpo.com
On Friday August 4, Turner Classic Movies and Film Music Magazine present The Composer Expo, a special event that brings together the best and brightest composers and other industry professionals to focus on the state of the art, craft, technology [...]

It’s Friday, and frankly I can’t think of anything you’d rather be reading about than this…
Remember this old tune? Oh-ee-yeah (Tale Spin)Oh-ee-yoh (Tale Spin)Friends for life, through thick and thinWith another tale to spinOh-ee-yeah (Tale Spin)Oh-ee-yoh (Tale Spin)All the trouble we get inWith another tale to spin
(Spin it!)Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh …(Spin it again!)Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ….
It’s from the [...]

Ever search your iTunes library with keywords? Sometimes the search results create interesting “themed” compilations. Let’s give it a whirl and see what we come up with (via searching over 9000 tracks)…
Keyword: “Finale”Results: 44
Some titles include…
“Finale Pt1″, “Finale Pt2″ – X3: The Last Stand (Powell)“The Big Empty Finale” – The Big Empty (Tyler)“Finale” [...]

This is the fifth entry in the ongoing soundtrack preview series. Wipe your feet on the welcome mat and step inside Monster House, Douglas Pipe’s big orchestral score for Imagmover’s latest mo-cap CGI-fest. Despite two of cinema’s biggest visionaries behind-the-scenes in Spielberg and Zemeckis, director Gil Kenan stayed loyal to his composer Pipes, [...]

Two big soundtrack releases today:
James Newton Howard’s Lady In The Water on Decca Records (in case you missed it, you can listen to five clips right here on the blog) and Douglas Pipe’s big orchestral score for Monster House on Varese Sarabande.
Varese also begins shipping their latest club releases and La-La Land Records ships Farscape [...]